Re: Progress bar on startup

From: Jens Knutson <tempest chartermi net>

To: Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>

Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org

Subject: Re: Progress bar on startup

Date: 23 Sep 2002 11:17:52 -0500

> My feeling is that it might be nice to get more feedback from the
> settings daemon as to precisely what it's doing "Started ESD" eg. so
> that we can provide more useful feedback.
Even better than that, perhaps some effort should be made to make all
the feedback a bit more generically named? If the point of this is to
inform users what's happening, telling them that "ESD" is starting
wouldn't be as useful as, say, "Preparing Sound"[1] or something
similar. Basically this would do the same thing to all the strings in
the startup as was specified for the GNOME menus in the HIG - giving
everything a generic name instead of referring to specific "branding",
which means little to nothing to the user.
- jck
[1] Yes, this isn't such a fantastic example, but you catch my meaning.